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...Minister of Interior, introduced before the Reichstag last week his Schundund Schmutz (Trash and Smut) bill creating a committee of five censors, the adverse vote of any four of which would suffice to suppress any book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard...
...Hermann Sudermawn, 69, Son of a brewer (TIME, June 4, 1923), onetime (1881-82) editor of the Deutsches Reichsblatt, famed novelist, greatly respected, has been wise to remain inactive amid the onrush of German authors to new and often fantastic art concepts...
...Violinist Auer, I have just become a U. S. citizen. I have made my home in the U. S. since my marriage, in 1905, to the daughter of James B. Eustis, of New Orleans, Ambassador to France under Grover Cleveland. Mrs. Edward Bok, daughter of Publisher-Patron-Organist Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, and her son, Curtis, were my sponsors for citizenship papers. I am living at the Bok residence at Merion, Pa., while my wife and daughter Josefa are abroad. This is convenient for my directorial duties at Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia. Josefa is studying sculpture...
...first named class of plays were given--plays by students in the University or Radcliffe. The first venture was "The Promised Land," by Allan Davis, '07. The merit of the production did much to establish the calibre of work which could be expected of the Harvard Dramatic Club. Hermann Hagedorn, '07 poet and playwright, wrote two of the four one-act playlets which comprised the next bill--presented in the spring...
...Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Philadelphia publisher (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) : "Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.) announced that I had promised it a pipe organ for its chapel, and a swimming pool. At Portland, Me., my birthplace, the municipal organ is a gift from me (TIME, July 19) in memory of the man for whom I am named, Hermann Kotzschmar, onetime bandleader of Dresden, Germany, church organist in Portland 1849-1909. A few years ago Bowdoin College conferred upon me an honorary degree...